>>> >In FoxPro 2.X you were/are able to tell foxpro to format this field, the
>>> format could be upper case.
>>> >In VFP 5.0a in an edit box you cant enter a ! for a format, which was the
>>> command to tell foxpro
>>
>>Wait a minute - I've just put a ! into the textbox.format property (not
>>the InputMask) and it simply works as it always did. (Vfp5.0) Though, it
>>gives me a bit of a headache about building into my converters, because
>>! was not connected to putting a @ before it, so it's not just as easy
>>as "put into format what's between @ and the blank, stuff the rest into
>>the inputmask".
>
>You're quite right...
>This wasn't my statement about '!' -- it still works fine for me too in vfp5. But I thought the original question was how to customize keypress events, not just convert lower alpha to upper?...(oh, well...)

Look at the question I said EDIT BOX not TEXT BOX.....there is a difference....